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Population growth is limited by the ability of the natural environment to sustain it. It can be limited by food shortages or a lack of shelter. Disease outbreaks can also limit population growth.
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What affects population growth?
Economic factors, education and political stability are all some of the factors that affect population growth. Areas suffering from wars or famine, for example, will experience low population growth.
Most density-dependent factors that affect population growth are?
biotic factors
4 factors that affect the growth rate of a population?
availabilty of resources. death rate. space.
What factors contributed to a large population growth in the north during the early 1800s?
cause of immigration
What do you mean by population growth and population density?
population growth means the population gets bigger and bigger
List three limiting factors that limit the growth of a population?
Food supply Disease Predation
Identify density-independent limiting factors and explain how they affect a population.?
Density-independent limiting factors are factors that do not rely on the population and are aspects of an environment that limit its growth like hurricanes, fires, and deforestation.
What is most likely to limit human population growth-?
Birth Control is what is most likely to limit human population growth.
What are the factors responsible for population growth?
two factors that are responsable for determining "population growth" are birthrate and deathrate.
What are limiting factors in population growth?
Some limiting factors in population growth are food, water and space !!!!
Which abiotic factors limit growth in populations?
Abiotic- Sunlight, water, temperature, and living space Biotic- predators and symbiosis
Describe one of the limiting factors and describe how it limits population growth?
human population has been growing rapidly since before the year 1000 but human population does not have a limit to how high it goes but it's us that gives it a small limit of what it can cope with, food production, waste produce, crime rate, health service are all at risk of over population so the population only has a small limit and we are the only ones that give it the limit!
Would the bear population always increase if there was an unlimited food source available?
no because of the limited factors that the food and other thing might limit the growth of the bear population.
A model of population growth that assumes that finite resource levels limit population growth?
Logistic Model
The is the point at which environmental resources limit population growth.?
The ___________ is the point at which environmental resources limit population growth.
What are the five limiting factors to a populations growth?
A limiting factor is a factor that inhibits the growth of organisms within an ecosystem. Some examples include:DiseaseTemperatureWater availabilityFood availabilityShelter availability: space
Describe the factors that contribute to exponential and logistic population growth?
factors that contribute to exponential growth is unlimited resources while factors that contribute to logistic population growth is limited resources.
